Subject: FW: Windows server with Wv on it
From: Chris Nicholson (Chris.Nicholson@intronet.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 06:21:48 CDT
I originally sent this to the wvware development list, and someone
recommended I mail this group as well.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nicholson
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: 'wvware-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Windows server with Wv on it
>
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded the wvWare source, but I'm now unsure what to do with it.
> There are several options, but they all have potential pitfalls. These are
> all because the wv will ultimately run on a Windows server and not a Unix
> server.
>
> Here's what's happened so far:
>
> The engine is a Java servlet engine. It needs to be able (amongst other
> things) to strip plain text out of a number of formats.
> At the moment, it can deal with RTF, HTML and some XML formats. However,
> it would help matters enormously if it could do
> this with Microsoft Word formats. Through the Java Native Interface (JNI),
> I was hoping to communicate with the compiled wvWare. However, there are
> different ways I could compile it.
>
> i) Using Cygwin, compile the source code. Can theoretically just use the
> Makefile already provided. However, still seem to be having some problems
> with this. Would also mean having to count on shared cygwin.dll file and
> an executable wv file. The JNI guidelines I've been using only give
> guidance for communicating with a wv.dll file.
>
> ii) Could use MS Visual C++ (boo hiss) to compile source code, to produce
> a wv.dll file that the JNI could communicate with. Downside to this... how
> the heck do I do this? (seeing as there's only documentation on compiling
> the code on a Unix platform)
>
>
> If anybody out there has compiled the wv source for a Windows server,
> could they please email me and tell me the options available, especially
> for a Java application that needs to communicate with it.
>
> Regards
> Chris
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